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How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success
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Teri Schnaubelt
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Leadership isn't about a job title - it's about action and behavior.
In SPARK, entrepreneurs, business consultants, and military veterans Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch show how anyone can become an extraordinary leader by embracing seven key behaviors.
Many people believe that leaders are the rare few at the upper echelons of a business or other enterprise. But the truth is leaders can be found at any level of an organization.
These are the Sparks - the doers, thinkers, innovators, and key influencers who are catalysts for personal and organizational change. Sparks aren't defined by the place they hold on an organizational chart. They are defined by their actions, commitment, and will.
When Sparks are ignited, their actions can shape their future. They make things better. They're the individuals who have the courage to challenge the status quo and take action.
Frederick W. Smith, Chairman & CEO of FedEx Corporation, adds: The concept of leadership is not a difficult one to understand. It's that straight-forward, but it's by no means intuitive. It must be learned and practiced. SPARK will help you do just that.
SPARK's, insights were hard-earned by its authors, Angie Morgan (Marine Corps), Courtney Lynch (Marine Corps), and Sean Lynch (Air Force), who today are sought-after consultants and keynote speakers, through their firm Lead Star, due to the relevant, engaging way they help individuals reimagine themselves as leaders so they can reach their true potential.
Not only does SPARK, provide you with the encouragement and motivation to be a leader, it also offers online resources that will further support your leadership development. With SPARK, as a blueprint, anyone can become a catalyst for change, and any organization can identify and develop Sparks.
©2017 Lead Star, LLC. (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Produced by special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Reassuring to parents and educators, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards shows why - and how - to step away from the cult of achievement and toward a more nurturing home life full of imaginative play and love of learning. Here's the message that stressed-out parents are craving to hear: It's okay to play! In fact, it's more than just okay - it's better than drilling academics. After decades of research, scientists and child development experts have come to a clear conclusion: Play is the best way for children to learn.
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Biased!
- By ANDRÉ on 09-12-13
By: Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and others
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Spark
- The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
- By: John J. Ratey MD, Eric Hagerman - contributor
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. In Spark, John J. Ratey, MD, embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's.
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I wish to give it 5 stars but…
- By Anonymous User on 06-24-22
By: John J. Ratey MD, and others
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Bet on You
- How to Win with Risk
- By: Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch
- Narrated by: Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In Bet on You, Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch reveal hard-earned, real-world insights that will help you realize your potential by enacting risk in ways most meaningful to you. The author’s risk-taking guidance has been embraced by the world’s best businesses: Google, Boston Scientific, FedEx, and Oracle. Their insights are the secret sauce behind any transformative journey to a success-filled life.
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Not a risk management bookk
- By Alex Sidorenko on 08-08-23
By: Angie Morgan, and others
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Focus on What Matters
- A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
- By: Darius Foroux
- Narrated by: Darius Foroux
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Why is it so hard to live well amidst the chaos and noise? While you might think this is a problem of the modern world, it's a timeless issue.
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Really Enjoyed the book
- By Anonymous User on 07-22-24
By: Darius Foroux
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Why Marriages Succeed or Fail
- And How You Can Make Yours Last
- By: John M. Gottman
- Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Psychologist John Gottman has spent twenty years studying what makes a marriage last. Now you can use his tested methods to evaluate, strengthen, and maintain your own long-term relationship. This breakthrough book guides you through a series of self-tests designed to help you determine what kind of marriage you have, where your strengths and weaknesses are, and what specific actions you can take to help your marriage.
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Insightful and Easily Understood
- By Diane on 06-19-12
By: John M. Gottman
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Rework
- By: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who's ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs who want to get out, and artists who don't want to starve anymore will all find valuable inspiration and guidance in these pages. It's time to rework work.
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Simple, Quick, Timely, Contrarian Advice
- By Paul on 06-18-10
By: Jason Fried, and others
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Welcome Home
- A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul
- By: Najwa Zebian
- Narrated by: Najwa Zebian
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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With practical tools, poetry, and prompts for journaling and meditation to lead to self-understanding in each chapter, Zebian shows you how to build each room in your house. Written with her trademark power, candor, and warmth, Welcome Home is an answer to the pain we all experience when we don't feel at peace with ourselves.
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Deeply and practically helpful
- By M O on 06-02-21
By: Najwa Zebian
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The Quiet American
- By: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Joseph Porter
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy amidst the intrigue and violence of the French war with the Vietminh, while his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on.
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Terrible narrator nearly derails Greene novel.
- By Richard on 07-12-12
By: Graham Greene
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
- Discovering a Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Alcohol-Free Life
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Catherine Gray
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever sworn off alcohol for January and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there's 'no point' in just one drink? Welcome! There are millions of us. This inspirational, aspirational and highly relatable narrative champions the benefits of sobriety with a three-pronged approach combining the author's personal experience, factual reportage and contributions from expert sources and self-help advice for anyone who wants to reduce their alcohol intake or eliminate it completely.
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Best Book on This Subject!
- By Polly on 05-14-20
By: Catherine Gray
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Bittersweet
- How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
- By: Susan Cain
- Narrated by: Susan Cain
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, connection, and transcendence.
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I REALLY wanted to love this book!
- By Leo B. on 05-02-22
By: Susan Cain
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13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do
- Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success
- By: Amy Morin
- Narrated by: Amy Morin
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone knows that regular exercise and weight training lead to physical strength. But how do we strengthen ourselves mentally for the truly tough times? And what should we do when we face these challenges? Or as psychotherapist Amy Morin asks, what should we avoid when we encounter adversity? Through her years counseling others and her own experiences navigating personal loss, Morin realized it is often the habits we cannot break that are holding us back from true success and happiness.
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A valley girl, like, reads a meme list? OMG!
- By Ed Ronin on 08-02-15
By: Amy Morin
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Becoming Myself
- A Psychiatrist's Memoir
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is 12 and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her, "Hello Measles!" But in his dream, the girl's father makes Yalom understand that his daily greeting had hurt her. For Yalom, this was the birth of empathy; he would not forget the lesson.
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Unrevealing
- By Lynn Labe on 06-16-19
By: Irvin D. Yalom
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